I've Never Hit The Lotto, But I've Hit A Jackpot

HawaiianEye

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Now I want to hit two Jackpots.

My first one plays super and now I have another one and I'm itching to try it out, but this damn virus is putting a stall on that.

The first one is an ebony Merry Widow with a maple handle.

My new one is an ebony Merry Widow with a camphor burl handle.

I got a whole closet full of cues and another custom being made that I can't wait to get and hit with, too.

Are y'all itching as bad as I am?
 

Lawnboy77

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Now I want to hit two Jackpots.

My first one plays super and now I have another one and I'm itching to try it out, but this damn virus is putting a stall on that.

The first one is an ebony Merry Widow with a maple handle.

My new one is an ebony Merry Widow with a camphor burl handle.

I got a whole closet full of cues and another custom being made that I can't wait to get and hit with, too.

Are y'all itching as bad as I am?


Post pics of those Jackpots!


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HawaiianEye

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Crappy cell phone photo, but it's all I have at the moment.
 

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Now I want to hit two Jackpots.

My first one plays super and now I have another one and I'm itching to try it out, but this damn virus is putting a stall on that.

The first one is an ebony Merry Widow with a maple handle.

My new one is an ebony Merry Widow with a camphor burl handle.

I got a whole closet full of cues and another custom being made that I can't wait to get and hit with, too.

Are y'all itching as bad as I am?

I think I remember reading somewhere that the Jackpot cues are / were made by Jack Potter of Libra cues?
 

HawaiianEye

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I think I remember reading somewhere that the Jackpot cues are / were made by Jack Potter of Libra cues?

They were made by Houdini.

Pick one up and it will do magic for your game.

Once you break the balls and bend over to shoot, they all magically disappear into the pockets.
 
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ideologist

I don't never exaggerate
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I think I remember reading somewhere that the Jackpot cues are / were made by Jack Potter of Libra cues?

Schmelke, and they are hollow cues that fall apart. I could fit a Sharpie up through the buttsleeve and tap the handle (the shiny bolt is in the handle). The ferrules are hilarious. The tips were burnished by a beaver. The shaft wood was sourced from a maple sapling. The finish is cupping all over, cracking and popping in others. Gray PVC for the rings, the cheapest of the cheap. To make up margin, apparently material selection was restricted.

I do love the pins, though.

Here are photos from a two week old jackpot

https://ibb.co/HrGbYTF
https://ibb.co/3yHqRXb
https://ibb.co/n8Fj7B8
https://ibb.co/C87npkN
https://ibb.co/cyRTyWK
https://ibb.co/fdSVmTc
https://ibb.co/qCSbx5x
https://ibb.co/Y3rshRF
https://ibb.co/SdfqTCr
https://ibb.co/Zc8hmWD
https://ibb.co/4VGPWD6
https://ibb.co/T8pZJBv
https://ibb.co/qyCFv7k
https://ibb.co/xJKK6QD
 
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Snooker Theory

AzB Silver Member
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Schmelke, and they are hollow cues that fall apart. I could fit a Sharpie up through the buttsleeve and tap the handle (the shiny bolt is in the handle). The ferrules are hilarious. The tips were burnished by a beaver. The shaft wood was sourced from a maple sapling. The finish is cupping all over, cracking and popping in others. Gray PVC for the rings, the cheapest of the cheap. To make up margin, apparently material selection was restricted.

Here are photos from a 2 week old Jackpot: http://imgur.com/a/pKDplLo

You sure it was a Schmekle, granted I don't think of stellar finishes with Schmekle, I think of better than what is posted in those pics where the finish lifting where the handle meets the butt sleeve, I wonder if it was someone else that contributed?
 

HawaiianEye

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When you're doing the photo, try outdoors daylight. Touch the screen on the cues to focus then shoot.

It is this crappy phone camera.

It won't stay focused.

My other phone took excellent pictures, but that phone crapped out.
 

ideologist

I don't never exaggerate
Silver Member
When you're doing the photo, try outdoors daylight. Touch the screen on the cues to focus then shoot.

Great mobile photo advice

Also take diagonal photos so you can fit more cue in the frame, it allows you to get closer and see the same amount of cue
 

HawaiianEye

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Schmelke, and they are hollow cues that fall apart. I could fit a Sharpie up through the buttsleeve and tap the handle (the shiny bolt is in the handle). The ferrules are hilarious. The tips were burnished by a beaver. The shaft wood was sourced from a maple sapling. The finish is cupping all over, cracking and popping in others. Gray PVC for the rings, the cheapest of the cheap. To make up margin, apparently material selection was restricted.

I do love the pins, though.

Here are photos from a two week old jackpot

https://ibb.co/HrGbYTF
https://ibb.co/3yHqRXb
https://ibb.co/n8Fj7B8
https://ibb.co/C87npkN
https://ibb.co/cyRTyWK
https://ibb.co/fdSVmTc
https://ibb.co/qCSbx5x
https://ibb.co/Y3rshRF
https://ibb.co/SdfqTCr
https://ibb.co/Zc8hmWD
https://ibb.co/4VGPWD6
https://ibb.co/T8pZJBv
https://ibb.co/qyCFv7k
https://ibb.co/xJKK6QD

I have seen three Jackpots, and played with two, and none of them are falling apart.

All seven of the shafts I've seen have nice wood and they play good.

The butt sleeve being hollow allows the cue to be forward weighted and gives the cue a good balance. There is no weight bolt in the cue.

The cue hits SOLID.

I've let numerous people try the cue out and not a single person disliked the way it played.

Have you played with one or do you even play pool?

You seem to have a personality conflict with the seller.
 

Snooker Theory

AzB Silver Member
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I have seen three Jackpots, and played with two, and none of them are falling apart.

All seven of the shafts I've seen have nice wood and they play good.

The butt sleeve being hollow allows the cue to be forward weighted and gives the cue a good balance. There is no weight bolt in the cue.

The cue hits SOLID.

I've let numerous people try the cue out and not a single person disliked the way it played.

Have you played with one or do you even play pool?

You seem to have a personality conflict with the seller.

You getting any finish lifting issues like in the above pics?
 
When you're doing the photo, try outdoors daylight. Touch the screen on the cues to focus then shoot.

I assume that Dean would know who made the Jackpot cues.

The woods and the style used in the Jackpot cues that I have seen do remind me of Schmelke cues though, and the taper of the shafts look very similar to the type of taper that I have seen on Schmelke cues.
 

JoeyInCali

Maker of Joey Bautista Cues
Silver Member
HrGbYTF


https://ibb.co/HrGbYTF
Damn, that ferrule is long.
Those tips are pretty thick too.
Nowadays, I rarely get 1" long ferrule request.
Never longer than 1".
And almost everyone wants trimmed tips.
 

HawaiianEye

AzB Silver Member
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You getting any finish lifting issues like in the above pics?

My finish isn't lifted off the cue and it isn't cracked anywhere.

And, like I've said in a few posts on here, I may be the ONLY person who got one AFTER seeing it and PLAYING with it FIRST.

I didn't buy mine from the original seller. I got mine from one of the first buyers, who liked it, but then wanted a longer one, so he ordered another, and didn't need two cues. If he didn't like the original one, he would not have ordered a second one.

And, in the same vein, I have played pool for over 50 years and owned dozens of cues, from $5 cues to cues worth several thousand dollars. I have about a dozen of them in my closet. If the cue I got DIDN'T look good or PLAY good (the highest priority), I never would have gotten it in the first place, much less gotten a second one.

I buy pool cues TO PLAY WITH. If they PLAY GOOD, I LIKE THEM. I don't care who made them or if they are pretty or if they cost $5 or $5000. My MAIN CONCERN is how they play.

Some people buy and collect cues because they can't play pool. They want a fancy cue to make up for their lack of playing skills. They worry about inlays and names and frilly stuff. While they are over in the corner on the bench showing off their fancy stuff, I'm at the table making balls.

I've come to the conclusion, from many years of reading the posts on various pool forums, that the majority of the people either don't or can't even play pool. At least not at the level I think of when I say "play pool". Nothing wrong with that, but then they want to jump in and talk about the "hit" of a cue when they have never ran a rack of balls in their life.

The seller offered anybody who bought a cue their money back if they didn't like it.

How many people have returned their cues?
 

HawaiianEye

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
I assume that Dean would know who made the Jackpot cues.

The woods and the style used in the Jackpot cues that I have seen do remind me of Schmelke cues though, and the taper of the shafts look very similar to the type of taper that I have seen on Schmelke cues.

Pick a plain Merry Widow with no emblem out of a stack of Merry Widows with no emblem and tell me who made it.

If there are no distinguished rings or emblems, Merry Widows are all almost identical, except for the combinations of wood.

And YOU can tell who made a shaft by looking at its taper from a picture online?

Really?

Let's get you to be our official cue expert.
 

JoeyInCali

Maker of Joey Bautista Cues
Silver Member
Pick a plain Merry Widow with no emblem out of a stack of Merry Widows with no emblem and tell me who made it.

If there are no distinguished rings or emblems, Merry Widows are all almost identical, except for the combinations of wood.

And YOU can tell who made a shaft by looking at its taper from a picture online?

Really?

Let's get you to be our official cue expert.

Who made the cues ?
 

Snooker Theory

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Pick a plain Merry Widow with no emblem out of a stack of Merry Widows with no emblem and tell me who made it.

If there are no distinguished rings or emblems, Merry Widows are all almost identical, except for the combinations of wood.

And YOU can tell who made a shaft by looking at its taper from a picture online?

Really?

Let's get you to be our official cue expert.
Hawaiian Eye been rocking the camera on this cell phone...

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I couldn't even tell if that was a broom or a cue in your pic. All jokes aside, if someone can tell what taper you got from the pics you posted, damn they deserve a medal.
 
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